Bestselling writer Robert Ludlum on working to pay the bills and bringing his books to millions of readers worldwide.
Robert Ludlum is the author of twenty one novels such as ‘The Gemini Contenders’, the Bourne series and most recently 'The Scorpio Illusion' which have been translated into over thirty languages, selling tens of millions of copies.
Having worked as a television producer and theatre actor, he also made a living as a voiceover actor for many years, primarily for television advertisements. Supported by his wife Mary he changed career at the age of forty,
For years I’d been a closet writer.
The success of his first book ‘The Scarlatti Inheritance’ in 1971 exceeded all his expectations.
No stranger to conspiracy theories, Robert Ludlum writes spy and thriller fiction. Each book starts with an idea or concept into which he places characters and storylines. He writes,
Out of outrage, or what amuses me, or intrigues me.
Rising before dawn to write every day, he prefers pen and paper to using a computer. While remaining positive about the current president of the United States Bill Clinton, Robert Ludlum is a longtime critic of the Republican Party,
They had very little regard for the average working guy.
This episode of ‘Kenny Live’ was broadcast on 17 April 1993. The presenter is Pat Kenny.
‘Kenny Live’ was a Saturday evening talk show on RTÉ Television presented by Pat Kenny. First broadcast on 15 October 1988 it ran until 22 May 1999.
